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Adventure with NetBeans Nightly Build

Scala modules are experimental and under active developing, other than the beta binary, you can also try cutting edge features via development version of NetBeans. Development versions are nightly built and change rapidly, please check updates frequently too via "Tool"->"Plugins"->"Reload Catalog" (update all available modules, including those not relating to Scala). Sometime, the underlying APIs changed, and things are broken, you have to re-download a new nightly build and try ...

Then in the "Available Plugins" tab, you can find the "Scala" category (or, you can click on "Name" in "Available Plugins" tab to find them. You may need to click "Reload Catalog" to get the latest available modules), check "Scala Kit" and click "Install", following the instructions. Restart IDE.

For every nightly built plugin, the following tips may be useful if you find something strange:

Find the netbeans' user configuration path of your OS, it's recorded under PathOfNetBeansInstall/etc/netbeans.conf, for example:

To download and attach source packages from the maven repository, right-click on the "Libraries" node and select "Download All Library Sources". This can be done from the "Test Libraries" and "Runtime Libraries" nodes as well. Once the source packages are downloaded, you can drill down to a particular class and double-clicking it will open the corresponding source code.

How to debug into Scala's compiler, library sources

If you have a project that want to debug into Scala's compiler, library sources, you could do when in debugging:
In debugging, open debugging source windows via: "Windows" -> "Debugging" -> "Sources". Go through the listed source jars, find ".../scala-compiler.jar" and ".../scala-library.jar", check them.